Being here for 3 years (and I'm pretty sure you've been here for about that long), I've never seen a 'new generation' start doing something like this.
On 6/16/06, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/16/06, Mark Gallagher m.g.gallagher@student.canberra.edu.au wrote:
From the famous Herostratus RfA: "There's no excuse to not use the warning templates for users vandalising, especially IP users."
And the perpetrator of this idiotic statement is, according to his userpage, an RC patroller (although, blessedly, not apparently a member of CVU).
Once we were worried about the newbie contingent getting so large that new users were in fact starting to consider themselves old hands and influencing Wikipedia (see: CVU admins, userbox fiasco). It's gone beyond that, now: these days, the newbies are offering *advice* to more clueful users, and expecting it to be taken.
So in other words the next generation is comeing through. Experence suggests that complianing that "It wasn't like that in my day" doesn't work too well.
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